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First post, by nelson777

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I'm trying to run an old dos application in win 2000 that communicates with proprietary hardware through serial port com1, but I'm getting a message saying "Write to reserved register, value 0x0, register 2 ".

I got another program in this machine, that communicates through com1, so the port's working. Also this other program uses serial port only when it's running. There's no port monitor or something blocking it's use.

Tryed with core=dynamic, cycles=33000, didn't work either. Tryied connections in other (old) machine and they're OK.

By the way, I'm not getting an "RX Overrun" message, as posted in other message, just the message above.

Anyone knows something about this ?

Reply 1 of 2, by h-a-l-9000

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This Write to reserved register is no hint for an error (it just tries to deactivate the FIFO).
Does it say 'opening com1 ...' in the dosbox console window?

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 2, by nelson777

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yes it says: "Serial port at 3f8: Opening COM1",
then the message I told you